Kimberly Brubaker Quotes & Sayings

I wanted to say a lot of things, but, as usual, I didn't have the words for the thoughts inside my head. — Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

According to the director, Primer is a movie about the relationship between risk and trust. This is true. But it also makes a concrete point about the potential purpose of time travel - it's too important to use only for money, but too dangerous to use for anything else. — Chuck Klosterman

Maggie ignored this. "I'll be glad to come to the party. Home's dreadful, you can't imagine. I've never liked school, but now home's worse. Mum's in a funk all the time." Every — Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

Sourpuss," she said, laughing. "Would it kill you to be grateful?" Maybe. Who knew? — Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

We emerged onto the ruined street, where gaps showed in the rows of buildings like missing teeth — Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

You're perfectly capable of learning. You mustn't listen to people who don't know you. Listen to what you know, yourself. — Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

Then I did what I should have done to start with. I taught myself to walk. — Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

I kept traveling down the road. And everywhere it was the same. What was my name, who were my people? What was I supposed to say? That my father is the president, and my mother is his slave? — Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

After that it was easy. It was the most impossible thing I'd ever done, but it was also easy. I held on to Jamie, and I kept moving forward. — Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

But what do I do with them?" Miss Smith said "I've never been around children." "Feed them, bathe them, make sure they get plenty of sleep," the doctor said. "They're no more diffi cult than puppies, really." He grinned — Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

You're a murderer.'
'So are you' she said.
'No, I kill. You murder.'
'What's the difference?'
'I kill murderers. — Dean Koontz

I stared at the paper. I said, "This isn't reading. This is drawing." "Writing," she corrected. "It's like buttons and hems. You've got to learn those before you can sew on the machine. You've got to know your letters before you can read." I supposed so, but it was boring. When I said so she got up again and wrote something along the bottom of the paper. "What's that?" I asked. "'Ada is a curmudgeon,'" she replied. "Ada is a curmudgeon," I copied at the end of my alphabet. It pleased me. After — Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

Every now and then, a person must do something simply because he wants to, because it seems to him worth doing. And that does not make it worthless or a waste of time. — E.L. Konigsburg

The NBA has more than 435 players and there are at least 100-some players doing more than expected. Shaq is doing a lot. Dwight Howard, [Manu] Ginobli. Dirk [Nowitzki] is doing a lot, and not just in Europe; he's reaching out to Africa and all other places. — Dikembe Mutombo

After that, with help from Jamie, I left Susan little notes every day. Susan is a big frog. (That one made Jamie giggle.) — Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

It was us, I thought. Jamie and me. We had fallen down a rabbit hole, fallen into Susan's house, and nothing made sense, not at all, not anymore. — Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

And even if it felt like Mam hated me, she had to love me, didn't she? She had to love me, because she was my mam, and Susan was just somebody who got stuck taking care of Jamie and me because of the war. — Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

This is the pure form of servitude: to exist as an instrument. — Herbert Marcuse

What you know in your head and what you say out loud are not always the same. — Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

Birth is the start of loneliness and loneliness the start of poetry ... — Erica Jong

I didn't know what to do. Susan was temporary. My foot was permanent. — Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

I really don't get nervous when I perform -it's more of an exciting feeling than anything else. But put me in a classroom with kids my age and have me take a test and yeah, I'll be nervous! — Alexa Vega

We're not dropping out here, we're infiltrating and taking over. — Terence McKenna

I had so much. I felt so sad. — Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

Jamie sings like a squirrel. — Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

It had been awful, but I hadn't quit. I had persisted. In battle I had won. — Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

Appreciations promote inner peace. — Lailah Gifty Akita

crippled. He'd been better as soon as his hooves were trimmed. — Kimberly Brubaker Bradley